to think Shetland isn't as good as The Killing

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Not nearly enough Shetland jumpers. Or ponies. At least Sarah Lund wandered around in Hunter wellies a lot.

It was terrible. Do the BBC no longer have any talented directors? The accents were awful too. I know Shetland is quite cosmoplitan, but schoolchildren not speaking in the local dialect?

@ Shetland being cosmopolitan...have you been Less?

Couldn't understand the accent. The only thing is has in common with the Killing is that they both require subtitles.

Utter rubbish.

Like an advert for not living there.

And they could have told the story in one evening rather than two if there had been any mobile phone reception.

I think I understood about one word in 10 and had to rely on visual aids to understand what was happening. Lost me after the first 10 minutes I'm afraid!

It was just okay

If they had stuck more to the book and got an actor who looked like he was related to a washed up seaman from the Spanish Armada to play Jimmy Perez it might have been a bit better

Still going to watch tomorrow night though

and they're not even the proper accents. Now if they had had the proper accents you really wouldn't have been able to understand anything.

I wanted to write that about the subtitles too!

Some of you cant understand Glaswegian accents? God help you if they actually had authentic accents!

We were looking for a summer holiday and there genuinely is a place in Denmark called Middelfart.

Jacqueline they do let non-Shetlanders live in Shetland, believe it or not!!

I counted one Shetland accent (Sandy the policeman), none of the rest were anywhere approaching it - there was one Northern Irish, several English, quite a few generic Scots and a couple of Glaswegian.

LOL Redlac

God, have to say this thread reminds me of my holiday to the States. Hotel receptionist was very chatty, and told me and DH her "ancestors came from Scotland". "Oh really?" we said "Which part". She thought for a while, and then said "Yorkshire".

LOL, lessmiss - did you say they were your neighbours?

Is it really bad?

I've Sky +ed it as I can't stand 2 parters over 2 nights, I record the first and watch them both together the second night.

I thought Sandy sounded Orcadian.

Can't believe people didn't understand the accents.
Does that mean as a Scot I would be unable to understand a strong Yorkshire, Cockney or Cornish accent?
Because I honestly don't have a problem with any regional British accent.

It's OK. just could do with Sarah McLund.

Sandy is the only character played by a Shetlander, Steven Robertson. Doesn't sound Orcadian to me, which is much more inflected.

Henschall is having an attempt at a Shetland accent, and every so often a word comes out in it.

Oh god, is there somewhere called Orcadia? I thought you were taking the piss and it was from Lord of the Rings.

I thought it was lacklustre.

Not like this thread then Jux

Im from way down South and I understood the accents all fine but wouldnt really know to distinguish between them. I liked it but Think I might have worked it all out already....

Not good but I don't think it was well written. The problem with rural/remote locations will be the accent, not that many actors will come out of that neck of the woods. I wasn't expecting The Killing though, that quality is pretty rare on t.v in general and even so it wasn't as good as The Wire.

Such a shame as the books are fab. But Douglas H as Perez is sooooo wrong. You need a cross between Denis lawson and Bryan ferry (at the right age of course). Who casts these things?

I enjoyed it, but thought it was made to look ridiculously dark and gloomy.